Postal Service Suspends Changes After Outcry Over Delivery Slowdown

The states plan to pursue their lawsuit despite Mr. DeJoy’s announcement on Tuesday. James E. Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine and [Lecturer in Law] at Harvard Law School, said the lawsuit provided assurance to the attorneys general that the postmaster general would follow through on his promise.

’The attorneys general don’t trust the word of the Postal Service,’ Mr. Tierney said. ‘They feel more comfortable having this done in open court.’

Emily Cochrane, Hailey Fuchs, Kenneth P. Vogel and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Postal Service Suspends Changes After Outcry Over Delivery Slowdown,” New York Times, August 18, 2020.